2012’s The Starvation Video games was a significant breakthrough for Jennifer Lawrence, however latest feedback from the actress (who performed Katniss Everdeen) are giving far more significance to the film than it deserves.
In a brand new interview, Jennifer Lawrence stated, “I keep in mind once I was doing Starvation Video games, no person had ever put a lady within the lead of an motion film as a result of it wouldn’t work — as a result of we have been advised ladies and boys can each establish with a male lead, however boys can not establish with a feminine lead.” You possibly can think about how nicely that is sitting…
Clearly Jennifer Lawrence is improper right here. You possibly can run by way of the final 50 years of films and discover a unbelievable assortment of butt-kickin’ females main by way of approach by way of motion flicks. There may be the barrage of exploitation motion revenge motion pictures of the ‘70s, the enduring Pam Grier flicks like Coffy and Cunning Brown, Uma Thurman’s outing as The Bride in Kill Invoice, and, maybe better of all, Sigourney Weaver’s unimaginable and complicated flip as Ellen Ripley in Aliens. Heck, even the 12 months earlier than the primary Starvation Video games film noticed Haywire with Gina Carano.
Nonetheless, Lawrence elaborated on her ideas and should have discovered a greater level to harp on. “It simply makes me so completely satisfied each single time I see a film come out that simply blows by way of each a kind of beliefs, and proves that it’s only a lie to maintain sure folks out of the flicks. To maintain sure folks in the identical positions that they’ve at all times been in.”
Jennifer has gone to have a prolific profession, with 4 Academy Award nominations and one win. Whereas her feedback about her position in film historical past are undoubtedly inaccurate, the field workplace numbers of The Starvation Video games present the impression the film–and her character–has had.
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